Earth Day Maths Recycling

This Earth Day Maths resource includes 6 worksheets on environmental facts and figures about the world. Students are asked to read the environmental information at the top of each worksheet and answer 6 questions about it. The questions are designed to make students think about the huge impact people have on the planet.
There are also 2 worksheets for students to write their own statistics about themselves.
There are two versions so that you can print in colour or black and white.

✎ Contents:
This resource includes:
• Worksheet 1 - Earth Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 2 - Population Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 3 - Animal Conservation Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 4 - Recycling Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 5 - Human Consumption Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 6 - Media Facts and 6 maths questions.
• Worksheet 7 - Your own usage statistics.
• Worksheet 8 - Your own recycling statistics.
• Teachers notes.
• All answers.

✦ Objectives:
This resource has been designed to practice:
• Big Numbers
• Standard form
• Estimating
• Fractions
• Percentages
• Rounding
• Multiplying and dividing large numbers
• Adding and subtracting large numbers
• Error intervals (upper and lower bounds)
• Circumference
• Negative Numbers
• Speed

✦ Notes:
Please note that all facts and figures in this resource are as up to date and accurate as possible, allowing for the fact that it is impossible to count exact numbers of plastic etc.
All answers are included, so you can easily mark students work.
These questions should take around an hour for students to complete.

✽ Directions:
Print out a set of worksheets for each student.
These can be printed in colour or black and white.

✷ Suggestions:
Create a classroom display with the completed worksheets.
As an extension task ask students to research more statistics about the planet.

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